Holocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, China

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dc.contributor.authorAtahan, Pen_AU
dc.contributor.authorItzstein-Davey, Fen_AU
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Den_AU
dc.contributor.authorDodson, JRen_AU
dc.contributor.authorQin, Jen_AU
dc.contributor.authorZheng, HBen_AU
dc.contributor.authorBrooks, Aen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-09T05:18:08Zen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-30T05:02:11Zen_AU
dc.date.available2009-06-09T05:18:08Zen_AU
dc.date.available2010-04-30T05:02:11Zen_AU
dc.date.issued2008-03en_AU
dc.date.statistics2008-03en_AU
dc.description.abstractSedimentary evidence from a total of 21 AMS C-14 dates and 192 pollen and charcoal and 181 phytolith samples from three study sites in the archaeologically rich lower Yangtze in China provides an indication of interactions between early agriculturalists and generally highly dynamic environmental conditions. Results suggest that environmental changes influenced agricultural development, and attest the localised environmental impacts of incipient agriculture. Evidence of human activity, in the form of indicators of deforestation and possibly food production, is apparent by ca 7000 BP (early Neolithic or Majiabang). Clearer evidence of human activity dates to ca 4700 BP (late Neolithic or Liangzhu). Extensive, profound and apparently widespread human impacts do not appear until the Eastern Zhou (Iron Age, ca 2800-2200 BP), however, which in the lower Yangtze was a period associated with technological advances in agriculture, increased urbanisation and relatively stable hydro-geomorphological conditions. © 2008, Elsevier Ltd.en_AU
dc.identifier.citationAtahan, P., Itzstein-Davey, F., Taylor, D., Dodson, J., Qin, J., Zheng, H., & Brooks, A. (2008). Holocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27(5-6), 556-570. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.11.003en_AU
dc.identifier.govdoc1133en_AU
dc.identifier.issn0277-3791en_AU
dc.identifier.issue5-6en_AU
dc.identifier.journaltitleQuaternary Science Reviewsen_AU
dc.identifier.pagination556-570en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.11.003en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/1311en_AU
dc.identifier.volume27en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.subjectChinaen_AU
dc.subjectAgricultureen_AU
dc.subjectQuaternary perioden_AU
dc.subjectCharcoalen_AU
dc.subjectPollenen_AU
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen_AU
dc.titleHolocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, Chinaen_AU
dc.typeJournal Articleen_AU
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